Cott Family History
Cott Name Meaning
English: from the Old English personal name Cotta.
RW.Possibly an altered spelling of French Cotte, a
metonymic occupational name for a maker of chain mail, from Old French
cot(t)e ‘coat of mail’, ‘surcoat’. It may perhaps have been
used as a nickname for a hard and unfeeling person, but is unlikely to
have been a nickname for a wearer of a coat of mail, since only the
richest classes, who already had distinguished family names of their
own, could afford such protection. A later meaning of cotte is
a long-sleeved garment, worn by both men and women.Alternatively,
possibly an altered spelling of French Cot, from a reduced form
of Jacot or Nicot, pet forms of Jacques and
Nicolas (see Nicholas).Respelling of German
Koth or the variant Kott.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Cott
Name Distribution of Cott Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cott families
 41 - 79  14 - 40 |
 1 - 13  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cott families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Cott Family Origin
Cott Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Cott Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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